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Fetched: September 16th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
Editor-in-Chief Joe Francica ran the LBS gauntlet last week by attending NAVTEQ Connections, CTIA and the SiRF Location 2.0 Summit. The big takeaway is the power of a single device to manage one business and personal life on a single location-enabled device. In the last year, Francica explains, LBS has become part of the enterprise. He and Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg explore the changes that have come with this growth.
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Fetched: September 11th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
As we settle in for the last quarter of the year many are back or heading back to school and work. Adena Schutzberg offer this news update on geospatial issues based on questions she's received over the summer months. Among the topics: the Census Bureau and handhelds, MAPPS' legal plans, DOI's GIO, GIS certificate options and more.
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Fetched: September 11th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
Location and relevance are the hallmarks of location-based advertising. The ad message must be targeted specifically at an audience within proximity and convenience to a retailer. This is what 1020 Inc. has developed with itslaunch of Placecast. Directions Media spoke with founder Anne Bezancon about how the company will support an advertiser to get its message out in time and on target.
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Fetched: September 10th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
The latest release of Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader software offer features that bring capabilities and control to sharing digital geospatial data. Jeff Moran, senior product manager for the Acrobat product line at Adobe Systems, explains.
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Fetched: September 10th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
Craig Rosa, interactive producer of KQED, San Francisco, presents the "cross-platform, cross-editorial program" KQED Quest. Craig explains how KQED Quest reinforces the message of global environmentalism by educating viewers about their local geography. Craig says Quest's mantra is: "geo-tag everything." This podcast comes to us from Back Five Productions and Endpoint Environmental LLC, the producers of the Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group, a group that meets monthly in Silicon Valley.
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Fetched: September 9th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
With news of two satellite launches in as many weeks and many deals around imagery in the news, it's time to look at the new data that will be available and explore how they may be delivered and used. Among the soon to be available data: red edge, a part of the spectrum that can help evaluate stress on vegetation. Join our editors as they review the facts and speculate about the future.
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Fetched: September 8th, 2008, 8:30pm CEST
In an era of increasing costs for transporting goods and people, businesses and governments are looking to information technology to help manage this challenge. The Land Transport Authority of Singapore and DHL Express are examples of two organizations looking for more effective ways to manage their infrastructure. Each is responsible for maintaining an efficient flow of goods and services over a wide network of roads and highways. Read this article for insights on how they looked to GIS for business process improvements.
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Fetched: September 7th, 2008, 11:53pm CEST
GeoEye's ground station in Norway relayed the downlink signal it received from GeoEye-1 confirming that the satellite successfully separated from the second stage of the launch vehicle and began automatically initializing its onboard systems.Bill Schuster, GeoEye chief operating officer, said, "Based upon the data we saw, the satellite is performing properly and ready to begin the next phase towards meeting its mission requirements." GeoEye-1 will now undergo a calibration and check-out period before imagery products will be available for sale--Source: GeoEye
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Fetched: September 4th, 2008, 5:30am CEST
MapInfo Professional version 9.5's new features include ease of use and data access enhancements, .NET support and a new license server. Those and some other goodies planned for a November maintenance release are explored in this review from Paul Amos. He's especially pleased with the new MapCAD tools for editing and tools for users to provide immediate feedback on the product and suggested enhancements. If you've not had a look at MapInfo for a while, this is a nice round up of what's new.
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Fetched: September 3rd, 2008, 5:30am CEST
What makes a good politician? Sometimes it is good personal skills, sometimes it is good leadership, and sometimes it is a clear vision. Martin O'Malley, governor of Maryland, has all of those - and he also has an understanding of how and where technology can support a political agenda. Read this exclusive interview conducted by Editor-in-chief Joe Francica when he sat down with the governor at the ESRI UC this past August 3rd.
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Fetched: September 3rd, 2008, 5:30am CEST
This podcast provides a look at a new GPS-enabled digital camera memory card that instantly uploads pictures to your online map of choice. Ziv Gillat, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Eye-Fi, discusses why the technology is useful for backpackers who want to capture their travels both on digital images and a map.
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Fetched: September 2nd, 2008, 5:30am CEST
It's not news that the Obama campaign has been a great user of technology up to this point. Last week, at the Democratic National Convention, the campaign used live maps to engage, enable and incite its supporters. We look at what was so special about this use of maps, why it worked and how the basic idea might be used elsewhere.
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Fetched: September 1st, 2008, 5:30pm CEST
Maps from a variety of sources provide coverage of Gustav
Directions Magazine - Top Stories
Yahoo! News (mostly englisch)
GISUser.com
OGC News Feed
Slashgeo
CADwire.net - GIS industry news
Topix.net
esri Google Group
[Technorati] "GIS" (mostly Englisch)
gis-news
con terra - News (deutsche Version)
Geography 2.0: Virtual Globes
Geo Coding
GIS CAD Interoperability
GIS Matters
Richie's Space
James Fee GIS Blog
AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial
Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog
Sebastian Pache | Blog for Spatial Technology
All geographic information systems jobs | Indeed.com
GIS Jobs Worldwide Google Group
